Reminds me of when people routinely (and entirely legally) use tax loopholes to avoid paying tax. The problem is that no one even tries to pay a dime more taxes

Reminds me of when people routinely (and entirely legally) use tax loopholes to avoid paying tax. The problem is that no one even tries to pay a dime more taxes than is legally necessary. And yet those people are routinely attacked instead of the laws themselves, which to me seems completely absurd. A person should no sooner pay "the spirit of" the amount of tax they "should" owe, than the IRS would forgive a restaurant some tax during the pandemic since "the spirit of" tax wouldn't sink businesses temporarily set back by pandemics.